For Sale

I've been putting stuff up for sale on eBay this week. (That was part of the reason for my recent adventures in the attic.) Most are items I've wanted to sell for years, odds, ends and traces of my former employment. It's just taken me this long to find the wherewithal to gather everything together.

(That, and the more I rid myself of now, the less I'll have to pack and move when I go.)

A few are books that have become redundant. There's also some equipment that is no longer used, which may be of no more use to anyone else than it is to me.

And my Newton MessagePad, as beloved to me in it's time as my iPhone is now (though not nearly as useful). I found an e-mail message on it that was sent from the hospital to friends and family the day my son was born. I wonder if I used it more than once or twice since then. I'm reluctant to part with it, but perhaps I love what it represents to me — new technology — more than the item itself.

Taking photographs and writing copy has taken up a substantial amount of time, much more than I would have expected. But then, there must have been a reason I put all this off for so long...